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| Farewell sweet Leonardo |
You may remember Leonardo the turtle our
lovely class pet from one of my previous posts. Sadly Leonardo did not survive
his last trip home with a student (lost, chewed by a dog or destroyed by a
sibling I’ve been told). The class were upset at first but quickly forgot poor
Leonardo after their kind teacher told them she would get us another class pet.
Not to be mistaken for a softy the children have been told that the loss of the
next pet would mean no more class pets!
It was an extensive process choosing
another pet. The class was the ones making the decisions.
First was a suggestion of animals (tiger,
shark, giraffe, turtle, crocodile and snake).
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| Voting for an animal |
Next a class vote on the type of
animal. Each student recorded votes on
paper. They were placed in a tin then drawn out and recorded in a tally next to
each animal name. Tiger was the winning
vote.
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| The votes are in |
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| Tallying the votes |
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| Students loved tallying the votes (they didn't even know it was maths)! |
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| The final numbers |
Next Mrs Hayley had to track down a stuffed
tiger toy. The mission was finally accomplished by donating to the World
Wildlife Fund who then sends a stuffed animal, bag, adoption certificate and
photo.
While we waited for the tiger to come from
the USA to Australia another vote occurred to decide whether the tiger was a
girl or a boy. Girl won this time.
Then we started thinking about names. Some
of the suggestions were Nala, Sheera, Tiger, Stripy and Alice. The winner:
Sheera.
It took a few weeks to finally get Sheera
to our remote island home.
She has finally arrived.
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| Sheera the Tiger |
After her first week she has sat with
students during our carpet time, sat on desks to help with work, played tennis
and with hula-hoops, participated in reading groups and helped us with our
math. Sheera goes home with students on the weeknights in a special bag with a
writing book and pencil. She has been home with 2 students for a sleepover.
They have both returned Sheera (unharmed) and presented their talks about what
they did with Sheera.
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| Reading, hula-hoops and tennis fun! |
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| Going home for a sleepover. |
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| The next sleepover |
Once again it is great to have a class pet.
The students have fallen in love with Sheera and want to spend any time they
can holding her in class. It has been great to help with behaviour management,
oral language, confidence, writing and hopefully more responsibility looking
after her at home!
I’ll be trying to share more Sheera
adventures throughout the rest of the year.
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